Good Idea!

We could even do live shows where people plan projects on stage in front of a live studio audience and then the public could ring in and vote for their favourite planner!

We could call it something like ’Gantt Factor’ and Charlie could be just like Loui Walsh!

May be thro a Poll by sending texts (SMS) by writing MVP followed by the PP ID no. of the MVP Planner and then followed by ur own PP Id

Each text to cost 50 cents, so that even PP Admin can have some more money to develop this site.

P.S. MVP stands for Most Valuable Planner

:-)

Oh no, it should be a full on popularity contest, where those of us who are insecure enough can boost our flagging ego’s by ’sticking it to’ our fellow planners ;oD

Here are just my views.

I believe PP is a great venue for planners from all over the world, regardless of race, religion, language, qualification or abilities to meet for some idle chit chat and exchange of ideas.

I do however also believe that PP and especially the more experienced PP’ers has a responsibility to also guide and advise and lead the lesser experienced planners.

PP should cater for both.

Some days planners visit for idle chit chat, and some days planners visit because they really need guidance and advice and on these days it is good to know who you shold be listening to.

To those that have some idea of the habits of the online comunity I can assure you, any one who expects all of their posts to be rated by readers are seriously over ambitious.

I do not believe we should see this as a contest. I believe what would be of value, is simply a tick box where, if you, the reader, found value in a post you can simply tick a box as a compliment and a thank you to
the person that posted it.

I do not believe the objective should be to in any way change any one’s way of utilising PP, and I certainly do not believe provision should be made for a bad or negative tick.

Just my thoughts.

it’s a valid point, the ranking system shouldn’t really compromise the nature of the forum at all. I’m sure the more free-spirited of you will continue to post regardless of people’s opinions of your posts, so why should you change? (although the facility to repeat rank should be restricted lest Charlie and Carmen force each others ratings machines to explode)

There is no harm, however, in people being encouraged to think before posting, particularly when an OP is asking for help...

Oliver,

I do trust your good will at the moment of judging a post as useful or useless. But what it is useful for you does not mean it would be useful for me.

What about the use of English done by no native English speaker. What about an excellent idea expressed with inconsistencies due to the poor or deficient use of the language.

Thanks Charlie for your comment about the high quality of my posts. You know my opinion about yours.

Can I compare my posts with Mr. Charlie, Mr. Chris or Mr. Clive who have an excellent domain of the English language. I believe , No

I keep on supporting the individual and private rating of posts : thumbs up minus thumbs down.


Cheers,

And if I will be to judge, I only know

Ms Carmen Arape’s post is of high quality.

Of course I love the post of Mr. Andrew

The rest of the posts, I also like their post because I’m a very tolerant person and I encourage the best exchange of ideas, planning ideas.

The bottom line, I learned from my fellow PP members.

Cheers,
happy planning and scheduling

Oliver,

To rate a post will involve the ideas, background, opinions of the person who is rating.

Keep in mind that here we are worldwide planners with more differences than similarities. The common interest is the planning business.

Most important differences to be hidden for the benefit of our debate would be;
Religion
Race
Political orientation
Sex (not really because I believe We are no more than 5% in this forum)
Generational conflicts
Individual prejudices

Do you believe that the above mentioned differences would not play a role at the moment of rating a post???

Cheers,

Charlie,

The last word of your post opened the door of my curiosity regarding the type of freedom you might be thinking about.

Freedom of thoughts or actions ?? I would like to think in PP as a site of exercising freedom of thoughts.

Freedom of thoughts (not equal) to judging or rating post.

Cheers,

Dave,

Thanks and fully agree with you. Excellent, thumbs up minus thumbs down. Easy.

Until the new criteria will be defined, Mr. Charlie is Top 1 with number of brilliant, less brilliant, insolent and crazy posts.

I will be No 1 as female planner with interesting, different posts.

Cheers,

To All,

It seems that some PP members want to finish with creativity, spontaneity, good sense of humour and insolent ideas (Why not) at the moment of posting.

Comments like “ judging substance and originality is not easy”. It is not only not easy , It is impossible.

I hope that you will be busy some years getting consensus about the criteria. Meanwhile, let any PP member to post the first idea that comes to his/her mind. No limitation at the moment of posting, just respect for others’ opinions.

Cheers,

The scoring system should not award anything for the number of posts, but should take into account when ranking.

There are hundreds of sites that use such systems for scoring posts and im sure the developer will be able to figure it out.

Even though my mathematics is poor, let me give a try

Minimum criteria should be:

a) Member need to have completed at least three months on this forum. To avoid hyper active members being scored in the initial period.

Based on the posts u can have avg. score, say in my case it is 37/month

Grading points can be given say on a scale of 1 to 5.

Points shud be awarded on both a) TOTAL POINTS b) GRADE POINTS

Now, u can give points based on:
a) 1 point per 10 posts per month, and
b) collection of 10 grade points will add 1 more point.

So, say in my case it is 37 posts per month will fetch me 3.7 scoring points

Also, assume that i have earned total 1000 grade points for 685 posts; So, that means i have collected 1.46 scoring points.

So, total score will be 3.7 + 1.46 = 5.16 scoring points

This will keep a track of members activeness over a period of time and quality of posts as well.

Cheers,

Rav

Hello,

Great point. We will point the web developer people in the direction of a button to allow readers to rate this post in marks out of 5. This way a members worth or usefulness can be counted via the ability of a poster to get 5 out of 5 for all posts made.

I assume we need it to recognise that a person has posted rubbish. For example if

Member A: makes 100 posts, all scored 1 out of 5
Member B: makes 10 posts, all scored 3 out of 5

Member A: total score will be 100 x 1 = 100
Member B: total score will b 10 x 3 = 30

But we need to recognise that Member A posted rubbish while Member B posted value! so I guess we need to compare the accrued score to the total potential score that was available?

i.e.
Member A: potentially could have got 500
Member B: could have got 50

Any ideas on the forumla to be used?

PP Admin.

Hi Guys,

As one of the older members, I have been a bit errant in my ways/participation on the site, but keep on meaning to correct this. This was partly due to illness, and the balance due to a lack of time, as a result of getting all kinds of other things done. It seems the site will survive without a few of us, but, it still important to participate when the time allows.

Regards

Philip

Hello All,

We can easily add some stars next to each members name that will reflect their activity on the Discussion Forum.

We would need to decide on how may posts earns you an extra star or some other icon!!

Regards.

Hi!
I would suggest a Member rating section.
1) Provide 5 stars and anyone can rate others (Only once) and cant rate oneself.
2) Provide stars with each reply. Others members can rate the post

First one gives "One’s overall opinion" or "Impression" about the planner and the second one is purely based on his articles and postings.

Both of these or any one of these can be implemented

Cheers!

Sreejith

Hello Philip,

I personally admired your contribution to this site, most of those are considerable, Cheers!! to you.

Hi! Guys even though we only met on this site but, it seems that we are getting closer with each other, by helping, considering and giving views and ideas to those in need.

Keep up the Good work.

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

Agreed

Hi! Philip,

I have nothing more to say about Planning Planet, this site is not just an ordinary site where people just having fun, here we are learning and helping our brothers in profession who needs assistance not only in Planning and scheduling but almost all in every aspecs of discipline and professionalism.

Now if you look at the influx of brothers to be member, they are coming in minute.

This site is a "very useful site" even for those experts.

Thank you.

Regards,

Jerry

Hi Guys,

Can anybody inform us the up-dates on the realistic number of members, i mean the current one.

I would like to extend my appreciation for those Originator or the Founders of this "Planning Planet".

You people are "GREAT!!"

Cheers,

Jerry Alivio

We will have a look at this and get back to you.

PP Admin

remember to use a factor to get real number of members. So don’t believe it on 10,226 ........

I see some merit in the sentiments expressed in the note below about members meeting in person. As we are now approaching 6,000 members there should be some critical mass in certain geographical areas for some person to person contact. I am not sure how we do it though. Any ideas? In the UK I suspect some members also belong to the APM , do they?

Hi all,

Now the members are ever expanding could we put together a meeting or somthing for memebers to meet in person, locally.

John

Gentlemen,

Congratulations with reaching the 2000 members! I think its a confirmation of having created (with some help of early and all other active members) a marker in the world of planning and scheduling. The 2000th member is located in the UK but has a rather Dutch name. As a present to the 2000th member we (I) , as Aram Planning Consultants in the Netherlands, we like to offer this member one day course in using P3e in our office in the Netherlands (in light of the new forum group P3e in PlannngPlanet).

When will we reach no. 3000?

Keep it going!

Ed van der Tak
Aram Planning Consultants
The Netherlands

I would vote for a new category for P3e (I just jumped to P3e and it is a birds eye view) and also for a download center. There have been times where we would like to share a file with some of the members. Tomas Rivera

Wow !! You are quite correct. Got any ideas on how to celebrate this auspicious event? We are also fast approaching the 1,000,000 page hits mark. Not bad to a volnteer site run by a handfull of planners in their spare time... Regards!

Hi,

Good topic. We have now got the site development fully underway. We hope that you find the "new" forum an improvement.

We are thinking of how we can have a mixture of posts and replies (replies being more important) plus the facility to cast your vote in regard to any particular reply or posting - in this way adding to a members "importance" via other members opinions etc.

If any of you good people have any ideas, please let someone here know.

The Planning Planet Team.

Hello, and good point.

We are currently changing web servers. Once this is completed we will start to further develop the site, plus the functionality of this forum.

Thanks for your support and comments.